Visitation  
Sunday (12/18)  2 PM - 6 PM
 *  Complimentary Valet Parking Available  * 

  Funeral Mass  
Monday (12/19) 9:45 AM
 Saint Andrew the Apostle Church 
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The eldest of four children born to Joe and Anita Seminara, Joanne graduated from Notre Dame High School in Staten Island (where she later taught biology and chemistry), Lehigh University, where she obtained a BS in Biology and Chemistry, and Brooklyn Law School.

Joanne was an attorney licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey for over 3 decades. A partner of the elder law firm of Grimaldi Yeung Law Group, she was known as an attorney known for her thoroughness, tenacity and compassion.

Passionate public speaking, organizing and community service has been an important part of Joanne's life. She regularly spoke at community education seminars on estate, trust and tax matters and conducted continuing legal education seminars. In 2015, Joanne, with Judith D. Grimaldi and Pierre A. Lehu, authored her first book entitled:Five @ Fifty- Five; Five Essential Legal Documents You Need by Age 55. Her various television appearances include the 6 PM News on Fox 5 New York, Brooklyn Savvy, NY1, Good Day New York and WPIX Channel 11 News.

Joanne received numerous awards and recognitions, among them: 2017 Bay Ridge Third Avenue Merchant's Civic Award; 2016 Power Women in Business Award from Home Reporter & Spectator News; 2016 Community Service and Law Award from the Brooklyn Real Estate Board; 2014 Winner of New York City Council Women's Community Service Award; 2012 Winner of Top Women in Business Award from Home Reporter & Spectator News. Joanne was recently named "Best Lawyer" 2020.

A member of Community Board 10 for over 2 decades, Joanne served as Chair of Board 10 from 2010 to 2013. A volunteer member of community organizations for many years, Joanne is past President and member of her local chapter of Business Networking International and an elected NYS Democratic Committeewoman and Executive Committee member of the NYS Democratic Party. She ran for City Council three times, knocking on thousands of doors to introduce herself and her ideas for a better community.

A life-long Bay Ridge, Brooklyn resident, Joanne enjoyed traveling, reading, creating artistic works in various media and more than anything, spending time with her husband, Pierre A. Lehu, two children, Peter Lehu and Gabrielle Lehu Frawley and four grandchildren, Jude, Rhys, Isabelle and James Joseph.

Joanne and Pierre met in 1975 in Highland Lakes, NJ, where their parents had summer cabins. They were married on December 3rd, 1978 and always considered their little cabin in Highland Lakes the "Mommy House", the place to which they could always return to find peace and tranquility.

  In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to any of the following:  

 Bay Ridge Cares 

 Doctors Without Borders 

 City Harvest 

 Bread for the World 

 Southern Poverty Law Center